Short answers, pulled from the story.
Stuart J. Levy opened the doors to Mixx Entertainment in 1997 with a single goal: bring Japanese animation and comics to American teenagers.
The title became the number one graphic novel or trade paperback in America by the 18th of June 1999 after executives changed the narrative by publishing it as a graphic novel instead of keeping it serialized in magazines.
Tokyopop sold books for an industry-leading price point of $9.99 per book while most competitors charged between $12.99 and $16.99 before the company adopted such a sweeping policy unilaterally.
More than five hundred American artists submitted their work when the contest ran from the 15th of August 2002, to the 16th of December 2002.
On the 15th of April 2011, Tokyopok announced it would close its Los Angeles-based North American publishing operations on the 31st of May 2011 due to Borders filing bankruptcy in March 2011.
According to GFK Entertainment, as of 2014 in the core segment of manga, Tokyopok GmbH is currently the second largest provider with a market share of twenty-seven percent.